German Parents Fined €300 for Refusing to Permit Their Son to Visit Mosque

Gates of Vienna ^ | 26 Oct, 2016 | Baron Bodissey

[MtnClimber]

Parents in the German town of Rendsburg were assessed a €300 fine for refusing permission for their 13-year-old son to participate in a school field trip to a mosque.

Apparently the “permission” that parents were asked to give was pro forma. It was not really optional. The visit was mandatory. The parents were fined. The boy will go to the mosque. Ve haf vays of making you visit the mosque…

Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this brief item from oe24.at:

Student refuses mosque visit: €300 penalty

Parents are lodging an appeal. But still a €300 penalty is looming, and a forced visit to a mosque

According to the syllabus topic “The Orient — power factor, water and crude oil”, a school class in the German town of Rendsburg was scheduled to visit a mosque. But one 13-year-old student did not want to make the visit, as the online portal mmnews.de reports. The parents sought a dialogue with the school after the announcement of the field trip destination. Since they aren’t members of any denomination or faith community, they were of the opinion that no one can be forced to step inside a religious facility. “Why should we send our child to people who generally despise and condemn unbelievers?” the parents asked the school.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought Scientology was prohibited in Germany. Wasn’t it in the 1990s?

[EvilCapitalist]

On the day the kid has to go to the mosque, he should have some greasy bacon in the morning, and not wash his hands. Then make sure to touch every surface he can while in the mosque.

[pepsionice]

For a long time, the German gov’t refused to give Scientology tax-exempt status...saying they weren’t a religion. At some point, I want to say after 2010...some US pressure was pressed onto the Germans to give the status. While they might have gotten that status, I think they’ve found that Germans are the least likely candidates to buy into their deal. The minute you say that money is involved....that hypes up a German to ask what the heck they are getting.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought Germany was more aggressive because of the encrypted messaging Scientologists were using and their bullying tactics against their critics and those who’d left the cult.

[pepsionice]

My private opinion is that Scientology spent some time trying to find something to blackmail a couple of individuals within the two major political parties (CDU and SPD), and then got a private meeting where they found some logic to allow them to exist.

But here’s the other side of this coin. Roughly one-quarter of Germany is atheists, who won’t buy into any religion, period. Then you have forty percent of the nation who is hard-core Lutheran or Catholic. That only leaves around 30-percent of the nation that you might be able to draw into the pitch....but then you run into the next issues.

A large segment of society is working middle-class with no money to throw away. Then you have the general skeptical view of Germans when it comes to begging money off people. I’d take a guess that out of a thousand German adults....they might only be able to convince two or three people to come and spend a weekend at one of their seminars.

Rich Germans “Hollywood” types? German TV doesn’t pay those salaries, and the movie-production studios don’t give out 7-figure salaries for movies. So, they don’t have money to throw at this type of religious experience, and neither do the music industry types.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Anyone else getting “attack site” warnings? Apparently google claims it.